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After watching Anil Swarup sir in few podcasts, I realised that he doesn’t just talk about “good ideas” in the abstract — he talks about how ideas survive real-world constraints.

He says that for an idea to actually work, it must be:

politically acceptable
socially desirable
technologically feasible
financially viable
administratively doable
judicially tenable
emotionally relatable
environmentally sustainable

In other words, ideas fail because people don’t think through logistics.

He argues that two major things stop most people from turning ideas into reality:

(i) poor communication skills
(ii) excessive political correctness

For now, I want to focus on communication.

Languages are not neutral — they reflect the psychology, culture, and worldview of the people who speak them.

Take a typical scenario: a bureaucrat trying to pitch an idea to a politician.

The bureaucrat usually comes from an English-medium background, trained in standard English and textbook Hindi.

The politician usually speaks in colloquial Hindi shaped by region, community, and lived experience.

On the surface, they may be speaking the same languages, but the versions of these languages are very different.

Standard English and Standard Hindi:

These are formal, structured, and taught in schools. Bureaucrats are trained in these because administration requires precision. Standard English evolved from the East India Company’s trading needs for centuries before the invention of formal bureaucracy, and standard Hindi was created by scholars and contains all the formal features.

Colloquial Hindi (also Colloquial British English) : This grows naturally from daily interactions, local culture, tone, emotion, and relationship dynamics. Meaning often depends on context, not just vocabulary.

This is where misunderstandings happen.

A bureaucrat may understand the literal words but completely miss the social meaning behind them.

The politician then feels: “This person doesn’t understand my world.”

Listening is not enough — trust is built only when the bureaucrat can speak back in a style that aligns with the politician’s linguistic comfort zone.

The Indian Administrative Context Makes This Even Harder

India is extremely diverse linguistically. Because of this diversity, a bureaucrat carries two burdens:

(i) doing the actual administrative job
(ii) understanding cultural and linguistic nuances well enough to negotiate with political leadership

This second part often gets ignored, but it has a huge impact on how effectively ideas move through the system or how things happen.

Fieldwork helps in understanding the words or sentences, but it is not enough to become articulate.

Articulation requires exposure to literature and culture — and articulation is what unites people and turns ideas into reality.

Because at the end of the day, even the best ideas depend on how well you communicate them in the language that people trust.
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What do you think about the role of language skills in communication and establishment of trust ?

Idea doesn't have to fit all criteria mentioned by Anil Sir in the beginning that's why communication skills is extremely important to do negotiations and in case of bureaucrats it must be at the level of articulation in language of politician. This is what I have understood which is not mentioned so I wrote about this nuance.
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Alana Gonsalves Politicians language doesn't mean some cryptic language they use, it's the language of people, the popular colloquial one used by common people. No politician of Bihar can't communicate properly with Rajasthan/Karnataka based bureaucrat who got Bihar cadre. So, these are some systematic issues of UPSC. I mean few actually learn language of cadre to the articulation level but many aren't. This is just first part of equation and main issue is political correctness which I'll cover in the part 2 of the post which I already mentioned in this post.
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Alana Gonsalves they never learnt at the level of articulation and that's the whole point because they can't due to short tenure. Articulation requires exposure to literature and culture and articulation build trust among group of people involved with politicians and turn idea into reality. I already mentioned that, this nuance is a big deal because it expose the weakness of centralised recruitments and frequent postings make system inefficient and also reduce diversity. It also question the exam syllabus also.
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Yash Pratap now, I like this interaction because I don’t agree here that articulation rests solely on language, culture, even literature. I believe articulation is more about deep understanding, experience, and also empathy among other factors, to be true to whatever is contended.
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Alana Gonsalves yes, but one need not to be a poet and have a deeper understanding but atleast articulation must be equivalent to average person who settled their from outside. Literature is the bridge to have that context upto a certain level and if there exists frequent transfers then it's almost impossible to have that context required for execution of any idea at ground level.
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Sandhya Suri you can't know anyone personality without using personality model and each personality model has its own utility. People are judging personality of other person based on the anecdotal evidence and create a prejudicial imagery in their head and think that they know about the other person. You need to communicate more to extract more data from local people and no one wants to do one sided conversation it means if bureaucrat is not articulate enough politician and other people who can give right inputs will loose their interest real quick and in absence of trust people want to implement great things, this is the real problem.
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Yash Pratap Wow. Long explanation.
I understand that, but did you?
Not sure if you understood where I was going with that.
Also, I am not speaking of models here. I am not speaking of categorizing or putting people in a neat slot as per their personality - God alone knows why it unsettles us if we don't do that, like everything has to be neatly boxed and labelled, lest we have time to think for ourselves and express. I am speaking about presence. About the presence that come through with ones communication, not by letting chatgpt represent their communication persona...that tells you nothing.
Communication is a deeply personal tool. Every single person is unique in that aspect. Emotional intelligence is critical to read the room. If lacking, it fades. We are not data alone. We are people. With narratives.
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Sandhya Suri yes, communication requires trust factor also and a machine can't replace that. We don't express ourselves in front of everyone, firstly we establish the trust and then we share critical information and without trust you can't extract critical information. Human communication isn't easy phenomenon and almost everything we do is some form of communication. When I write Sin Theta then I am trying to say a right angled triangle and it's ratio between perpendicular:hypotenuse.

It exists in the place where people don't expect, language and communication is what build this civilisation.
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Well analysed. This is the essence of the thought analysed in my recently released book, "You Can Make It Happen".
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Anil Swarup ji, very well articulated. But how do you factor in the vested (personal, financial and legal) interests of the Politicians, that is not a representation of the people who elected them?
Don't you think that is why bureaucrats like Rajiv Kumar and Gyanesh Kumar become their most favourite and trusted ones?
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Pradeep Ghosh I'll cover the issue of political correctness in the part 2 (already mentioned in the post) which deals with the issue you're referring to " Why people don't take stand for the right things " .. political correctness is "self censorship" and it's much bigger than state sponcered censorship.
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Anil Swarup ji, absolutely. But then why do such educated Civil Servants succumb to the pressures of the Politicians, and become hand in gloves with the Politicians? What the last and this Chief Election Commissioners are doing, is not only a threat to our long cherished Democracy, but such a big shame for Bureaucracy. They are not pawns in the hands of the current Government, but accomplices of theirs. How do you correct this?
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When u use PESTLE, VUCA approaches the principles of the Golden triangle ..these things already fall in line ... Yash PratapPESTLE stands for Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, and Environmental analysis. This framework enables organizations to identify key macro-environmental factors that could affect their operations, strategy, and performance .VUCA is an acronym for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity. Originating from military strategy, it has become a central concept in business leadership and organizational strategy today
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I think ideas are dime a dozen. Creative people feel out the spectrum of the possible and try to land at something that sticks with the people/society.

Intent, drive, passion and purpose are far more important. A driven leader or beaurocrat will persevere to make change happen, even if small and incremental.
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Yash Pratap

You have provided a long list of touch stones to test the overall efficacy of any
 "Idea"
All of them are valid and valuable.
The practical problem is that any idea rarely fits all these criteria to begin with
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Dr VS RAMASWAMY I talked about the role of communication skills in this part

India is extremely diverse linguistically. Because of this diversity, a bureaucrat carries two burdens:

(i) doing the actual administrative job
(ii) understanding cultural and linguistic nuances well enough to negotiate with political leadership

This second part often gets ignored, but it has a huge impact on how effectively ideas move through the system or how things happen.

Fieldwork helps in understanding the words or sentences, but it is not enough to become articulate.

Articulation requires exposure to literature and culture — and articulation is what unites people and turns ideas into reality.
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Dr VS RAMASWAMY Idea doesn't have to fit all criteria mentioned by him in the beginning that's why communication skills is extremely important to do negotiation and it must be at the level of articulation in language of politician. This is what I have understood which is not mentioned by him so I wrote about this nuance.
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Ideas win when it's time come. That's all.

There is historical current is going on around you. What ever you do, you impact within you reach only. When the flow takes you, you impact more than what you thought you are are capable of.

J@ws claimed 6 million J@ws are killed by H but no where there is no proof in public domain. But the historical current of establishing central banking system took that idea and went every where to normalise it. Now, Central bank decide tax rate within the nation state which usually J@ws decide. Actually, this over interest caused their expulsion in more than 100 nations. Now, these Central Banks are controlled by international settlement bank. It is a private bank with opaque administration. So, who decide interest rate for your home loan, education loan, car loan?

, while king Leopold of Belgium killed more African than H, he is not vilified to the level of H. Even not mentioned as note in any Genocide story from traditional media.

Now, tell me, why one idea lead to change world economic system but another gone from public memory?
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Dr.C.Gothanda Moorthy Ph.D I don't think it's accurate way to see this because fundamentally 3 things determine what can be implemented

1. Female Literacy (access to education) & TFR : if there aren't enough extra people then you can implement anything without threat of violence and to use anything say mobile phone people need to know how to make sense out of counting numbers.

2. Technology : Money isn't a unbiased tool, it is biased towards the "Deep Tech" in modern economy, I mean the machines which are responsible to build products say jet engines and nuclear weapons. Money means nothing without purchasing power

3. Inequality : Inequality based on dominant group (mostly religion based) vs marginalised. Communist revolution and it's variations are used to wash things from memory. Dominant Group support "colonialism" where elites drain wealth to richer nations and force a weird form of nationalism and marginalised people use communist revolution and it's variant which generally don't solve the problem but change the oppressor from God to dominant caste/class.

The memory always depend on the point 3 because these people are the people with purchasing power at that point of history of time.
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Dr.C.Gothanda Moorthy Ph.D the problem with communism is lack of discretion, it always forget that money is just a financial tool, real problem is "life is inherently a risk". We have welfare state system (Fabian Socialism) also. So, capitalism is Inevitable because we can't predict supply demand easily and that's why stock market banks insurance exists. China just say it's communism but it's not in reality.

The real issue is crony capitalism and uncontrolled capitalism it never exists in vaccum, it is always byproduct of people's blind faith in extremists ideology sometimes it's religious and sometimes it's communism oriented. When people pick such leaders then they kill free speech and ultimately cronies win but people become extremists first then cronies take advantages.

The real issue is capabilities and Amratya Sen solved this issue already by various indexes we see.
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Dr.C.Gothanda Moorthy Ph.D I already agreed with your argument I just explained Why better.

1. Capitalism : already agreed but also said the crony capitalism never comes alone.

2. Historical Current : people with purchasing power argument.

Use GPT to query better and GPT is language tool so if you query wisely you'll understand What I am saying in more depth.